Chitra Joshi

• MBBS, MS (Obs and Gynecology)
• Professor at Government Doon Medical College, Dehradun, India

Background: The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has upended medical education. This pandemic has risen uncertainty over the start of the normal routine of studies in medical universities. Amidst the worldwide shortage of doctors, there is widespread dilemma and disagreement regarding the role of the medical students during this pandemic. Medical edu...

Background: There are enormous studies on various aspect of Diabetes and Metabolic syndrome, majority of studies are on urban population, few in rural area but very few for the population living in far flung hilly region of Himalaya. The aim was to find the prevalence of different components of metabolic syndrome in Type 2 diabetics living in the h...

p class="abstract"> Background: The aim of the present study was to analyse inflammatory markers in idiopathic osteoarthritis of knee and to formulate reliable disease markers in the diagnosis and prognosis of the disease. Methods: This prospective study was conducted for 2 years in a tertiary care center in 60 patients with idiopathic osteoarthrit...

The article by Dr. Catherine Curley,1 “Rule out pulmonary tuberculosis: clinical and radiographic clues for the internist,” was very well written, but we would like to point out two facts regarding the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis, especially in high-prevalence countries like India, that might make the article more informative. First, it ha...

Introduction: Concurrent occurrence of soft tissue chondromas and periosteal chondromas is a rare but with same basic pathology as the enchondroma except their location. Case Report: A 52 years male came with chest pain and difficulty in breathing in the department of medicine. He was diagnosed as a case of chronic obstructive lung disease with car...

Background: Road traffic accidents (RTA) are responsible for 1.2 million deaths worldwide each year. RTA will become the 3(rd) largest contributor to the global burden of diseases after ischemic heart diseases (IHD) and depression. We conducted a retrospective study on RTA in a tertiary center in the hilly district of Uttarakhand in India. Method...

Trichinosis is caused most commonly by the nematode Trichinella spiralis. In this paper we report a case of gluteal abscess that developed after a man ingested undercooked wild boar meat. The biopsy revealed a small calcified cyst encircling a coiled threadlike worm. The diagnosis was trichinosis superimposed by pyogenic bacterial infection. As gra...

Krukenberg tumors mostly occur after 40 years. Metastatic ovarian tumors in young age are very rare and reported to be 2% of all the cases. Thirty percent of all ovarian neoplasms occurring during childhood and adolescence are malignant. A 25-year-old woman, parity- 2, presented with abdominal distension, pain in abdomen and amenorrhea. On examinat...

Introduction: Trichinella infection in humans is strongly associated with the consumption of raw or undercooked meat. Case Report: We report a 15 weeks pregnant woman aged 27 years who was referred from the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology for intercostal pain and swelling. The biopsy showed a tiny calcified cyst surrounding a coiled threadl...

Mucormycosis is an angioinvasive infection caused by ubiquitous filamentous fungi of the order Mucorales. It is a rapidly progressive fatal infection mostly reported in susceptible individuals, such as those with poorly controlled diabetes or those with defects in phagocytic function. Rhinocerebral mucormycosis is the most common type of mucormycos...

Background: Traumatic loss of talus during a compound injury of ankle is an unusual injury. Objective: We report a 55 years old woman who sustained an open ankle injury with complete extrusion of talus and loss at the injury site. Method: A tricortical bone graft was obtained from iliac crest and talar dimensions carved with 5 cm length and 3...

The aim of the study was to analyse and compare statistically the incidence of accidental fall of instruments during elective and emergency caesarean section. Material and Methods: A prospective study was carried out at (V. C. S. G. G. Medical Sciences and Research Institute) Srinagar, Pauri Garhwal, India over a period of 24 months. The instrument...

The incidence of breast tuberculosis is not uncommon but there is gross under reporting of such an important disease. It presents with mimics of breast abscess, fibrocystic disease and breast cancer. Breast tuberculosis has been rarely reported from Garhwal region of Uttrakhand. Breast tuberculosis has no well defined clinical features and apart fr...

A 24-year-old woman having two children using an intrauterine contraceptive device was admitted with lower abdominal pain and fever. On clinical and radiographic examination revealed a 7x6 cm multi-loculated cystic mass in the lower abdomen. The differential diagnosis included twisted ovarian cyst, ectopic pregnancy, tubercular tubo-ovarian (TO) ma...